Author: John Lawless

We are going to take a break this week from our IBMA poll questions to start a series of queries about the evolving landscape of recorded music sales. These days all kinds of numbers about album and CD sales are being

The Kenny & Amanda Smith Band have spent much of the past two weeks recording at Gat3 studio in North Carolina, completing a new album which will be released soon on the Gat3 label. They tracked 14 new songs with the

The latest album from the singing Bankesters, Looking Forward, hit on June 1. As always, it features Phil and Dorene Bankester and their trio of talented daughters, Melissa, Emily and Alysha. Or, I should say, this project features the trio. Their earlier

... always a teacher. At least that's what they say. Having been raised by parents who were teachers - and having done a fair bit of teaching myself - I know how close to the surface the pedagogic impulse lurks. You can

Charlottesville, VA singer and songwriter Kathryn Caine has released her latest album, When I Was His Wife. It contains 12 of her new songs, along with bluegrass/country accompaniment from Andy Thacker on guitar and mandolin, Tom Hogge on banjo, Darrell Muller

I spoke yesterday with California banjo player Bill Evans as he was driving north from the Bay Area to do shows this weekend in Washington and Oregon. Both tonight (6/1) in Seattle, and Saturday in Bend, will find him doing

Funeral services for Doc Watson will be held this weekend in Deep Gap, NC at the Laurel Springs Baptist Church. Doc's body will lie in state on Sunday (6/3) from 2:00-3:00 p.m. (EDT), with the funeral to follow. Laurel Springs Pastor Larry

If you missed the live Goat Rodeo Sessions concert that was broadcast on PBS May 25 - or if you would like to see it again - the video is now available online. The show was recorded live at the House

Gary Hultman of Birchdale, MN has been announced as the winner of the Harlow resonator guitar raffle which was conducted recently to benefit the Fayette County Humane Society in Ohio. Joe Mullins drew the winning ticket at MyClassicCountry in nearby Xenia from among the

Bluegrass Today's Terry Herd spent several days last week in Branson, MO at the Bluegrass & BBQ festival at Silver Dollar City. While there, he recorded a number of interviews which will run in June on his syndicated radio program, Into